Here's a real quick music video I shot on the UM 4.6k EF a few weekends ago. I rented the Mini for a corporate shoot on a Monday, so I had the camera all weekend and decided to knock out a music video for my roommate's band's forthcoming debut album. It was a real fly by night shoot. We pretty much just walked into the woods with a bare bones idea and a couple of halloween masks and built the story on the fly.

Shot in 2k 16:9 ProRes HQ; Nikon 17-35 f2.8 typically at either f5.6 or f4. I used a NiSi 0.9 IRND filter for the majority of the shots, except the end beach shot, where I dropped down to a 0.3 Skier IRND.

Thought I'd share a quick test clip I filmed with the URSA Mini 4.6k and the XEEN Cinema Lens 24mm last year from a project releasing soon. This was filmed on the original firmware so keep that in mind. There was some FPN that I cleaned up in post. When uploaded on YouTube, the colors shifted slightly, so I'll be uploading this on Vimeo later tonight to be viewed proper and will update the link

In honor of Troy singing on The Voice tonight I'm going to share these two music videos that I shot for him with Blackmagic Cameras. Both have been shared here before, but I figured it's worth re-sharing them to remind everyone about his incredible voice. Hopefully he does really well on The Voice tonight. Check it out!

Rosary:

(Shot with Blackmagic Cinema Camera 2.5K in 2014 with Rokinon Cine Lenses, Tokina 11-16mm, and some Minolta lenses with an adapter)

Enjoy reliving these music videos! And, please check out The Voice tonight to see if you can catch Troy perform.

EDIT: I guess Troy wasn't on last night, but will be on. I'm not familiar with the Voice format as I've never watched the show. He's definitely on this season. The previews show him, so I know he's on. Probably tonight or Thursday night. I'll keep everyone informed. Still enjoy the videos. Song Man was shot 1-year ago as of last night.

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Deyan Parouchev wrote:Hello Black magicians ! Here is my new show reel, almost entirely shot with the Ursa Mini 4,6K and the big one, but few shots are with the Arri Alexa, and the 5D mark III, Will you be able to see which ones ?

please tell me the last sequence, of the girl with glasses footage, was shot on the UM46K!it looked too good, though.

Deyan Parouchev wrote:Hello Black magicians ! Here is my new show reel, almost entirely shot with the Ursa Mini 4,6K and the big one, but few shots are with the Arri Alexa, and the 5D mark III, Will you be able to see which ones ?

please tell me the last sequence, of the girl with glasses footage, was shot on the UM46K!it looked too good, though.

is that the Alexa footage?

Hi Adam ! Can you give me the time code ? Because I see several girls with glasses

Hi! I'm shy and I usually don't post. I present to you the first 3 minutes of the episode 0 for a TV series (the full episode is 40 minutes long). Written, directed and filmed by me with BMPC4K RAW 24p. Tell me what you think.

Deyan Parouchev wrote:Hello Black magicians ! Here is my new show reel, almost entirely shot with the Ursa Mini 4,6K and the big one, but few shots are with the Arri Alexa, and the 5D mark III, Will you be able to see which ones ?

please tell me the last sequence, of the girl with glasses footage, was shot on the UM46K!it looked too good, though.

is that the Alexa footage?

Hi Adam ! Can you give me the time code ? Because I see several girls with glasses

Here is some test shots made with the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, with the LOMO OKS 3-10-1 f/2.1 10mm prime lens, attached through a RafCamera adapter. Everything shot in CinemaDNG RAW and graded in DaVinci Resolve 12.5:

RiccardoRoan wrote:Hi! I'm shy and I usually don't post. I present to you the first 3 minutes of the episode 0 for a TV series (the full episode is 40 minutes long). Written, directed and filmed by me with BMPC4K RAW 24p. Tell me what you think.

please tell us how we see more of this! i'm sold on the vibe and look.

RiccardoRoan wrote:Hi! I'm shy and I usually don't post. I present to you the first 3 minutes of the episode 0 for a TV series (the full episode is 40 minutes long). Written, directed and filmed by me with BMPC4K RAW 24p. Tell me what you think.

please tell us how we see more of this! i'm sold on the vibe and look.

Thank you!!! We are proposing it to some production companies. I hope to show it soon.

RiccardoRoan wrote:Hi! I'm shy and I usually don't post. I present to you the first 3 minutes of the episode 0 for a TV series (the full episode is 40 minutes long). Written, directed and filmed by me with BMPC4K RAW 24p. Tell me what you think.

Hey Riccardo,

Thanks for your feedback on my film, this is great too, love the mood and lighting, good job my friend!!!

I had a music video released yesterday too all shot on the URSA Mini 4.6k which you can find on Vevo, the editor has slightly over graded it imo but hey that was out of my control and was prob to do with the style the band wanted.

Thanks for your feedback on my film, this is great too, love the mood and lighting, good job my friend!!!

I had a music video released yesterday too all shot on the URSA Mini 4.6k which you can find on Vevo, the editor has slightly over graded it imo but hey that was out of my control and was prob to do with the style the band wanted.

You're more than good! WOW! Amazing.Can I come to the UK to work for you?

RiccardoRoan wrote:Hi! I'm shy and I usually don't post. I present to you the first 3 minutes of the episode 0 for a TV series (the full episode is 40 minutes long). Written, directed and filmed by me with BMPC4K RAW 24p. Tell me what you think.

RiccardoRoan wrote:Hi! I'm shy and I usually don't post. I present to you the first 3 minutes of the episode 0 for a TV series (the full episode is 40 minutes long). Written, directed and filmed by me with BMPC4K RAW 24p. Tell me what you think.

Nice work Ricardo. Love the BMPC. Very cinematic. I have no idea what it's about, but it looks cool.

Excellent matching of the music to the disparate clips. Very good calling card, James. Lots of lovely dramatic postcards.

In terms of some constructive criticism, I noticed a few of the edits are held too long. For a show reel, it's best to try to cut the moment the clip reaches its maximum impact; if held beyond that point, the impact can fade since we don't have the context to understand the subtle expressions and message that may be evident after the climax when one sees it within the whole context. Just one example, would be the girl throwing liquid at the lens: cut at the impact.

rick.lang wrote:Excellent matching of the music to the disparate clips. Very good calling card, James. Lots of lovely dramatic postcards.

In terms of some constructive criticism, I noticed a few of the edits are held too long. For a show reel, it's best to try to cut the moment the clip reaches its maximum impact; if held beyond that point, the impact can fade since we don't have the context to understand the subtle expressions and message that may be evident after the climax when one sees it within the whole context. Just one example, would be the girl throwing liquid at the lens: cut at the impact.

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Hey Rick,

Thanks for taking a look and giving your advice, I do agree with you in many aspects, to be totally honest I have found it very difficult to cut as its for myself and whatever I do I will always think I could do better.

I guess its that thing us creatives always have, its took me 10 years to shoot work I am fairly pleased with to be fair so this reel has been a long time coming.

James, it was worth the struggle. You can be proud of that work. And then do better. As many people have mentioned, it's when we fail, we ultimately succeed. Without failure, there can be no success. Personally, I fail every time I shoot!